Word: hiltonization
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...just don't get," the unemployed former chopper pilot said last week. Coughlin's experience does not make her optimistic that the Greene case will lead to enlightenment. Although more than 140 Navy and Marine officers were cited for wrongdoing at the Tailhook convention at the Las Vegas Hilton, none was convicted at court-martial. "I'd be hesitant to call this case a step in the right direction until I see where the court-martial goes," Coughlin said. "I've been there, and it's a kangaroo court...
...suitors began paying court months ago. When H. Ross Perot stopped by Hilton Head, South Carolina, last year, his "phone pal" Lamar Alexander, the former Governor of Tennessee who would soon become a Republican candidate for President, personally rushed out to the airport to meet him and drive him to the waterside home where the Governor was vacationing. There, over iced tea in a living room overlooking Calibogue Sound, Alexander, in his khakis, and Perot, in his business suit, indulged in some plain talk. "Ross," Alexander said, "if you do what you did last time, we'll get Clinton again...
Well, what is a hero? When finally released with other POWS in 1973, McCain was welcomed home, all right (he leaned forward on his crutches and thanked Richard Nixon for everything including the Christmas bombing that had rained all around the "Hanoi Hilton" while he was a guest there), but McCain's was not a feel-good denouement. A rotten script. One of the lessons of Vietnam was that political context counts--that it may, in fact, be everything. Boys who went off to Vietnam with John Wayne movies screening in their minds returned to Deer Hunter America...
...opposite end of the Yard, muchcoveted Grays, known as the "Harvard Hilton," also features large common rooms with scenic views. Four- and five-person suites with wood floors and private bathroomsmake this dorm the most luxurious in the Yard...
...TAYLOR WAS WED TO HOTELIER Conrad N. Hilton for eight months, as your chart indicated, then how come that wasn't brought out back in 1951 during her well-publicized divorce from Conrad's son C. Nicholson (Nicky) Hilton Jr.? Could this explain why Hilton Sr. titled his 1957 memoir Be My Guest...